GRGR Argentinians bound for Germany

[jbor]

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>From: "Coffey, Mitchell R" <mitchell.coffey at baesystems.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: GRGR Argentinians bound for Germany
>Date: Thu, Aug 3, 2000, 11:27 PM
>

>>This has probably come up on Pynchon-L before, but a friend of mine
>>said something to me today that makes me wonder if the U-boat full of
>>Argentinian anarchists headed towards the Zone might be, among other
>>things, Pynchon's comment on the ratline that carried Nazis from
>>Germany to safety in Argentina and other South American countries.
>
>
> I don't see how it could be anything else.  It's a pretty funny take on what
> was a standard cliche back then.

I don't think that the anarchists who have "hijacked" (383.23) the U-boat in
the novel are pro-Nazi at all. They are headed for the Zone, and von Goll's
Directorship of their anarchist Argentine movie-state based on *Martin
Fierro*. Perhaps the Toiletship Rucksichtslos might be more fertile ground
for such a (shitty) thesis?

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